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Posted by: Dave J | December 30, 2007 at 04:17 PM
Good decision, Editor!! Some of the columns, especially those of Bagshawe and Franklin, were no more than juvenile ego-trips.
Posted by: Moral minority | December 30, 2007 at 05:31 PM
Dave J: All will be clear in the week beginning 7th January when we will be doing something different...
Thanks for your interest.
Posted by: Editor | December 30, 2007 at 08:55 PM
Louise Bagshawe's last article was rather cringe-making (as was her idea to charge football clubs for the costs of policing the behaviour of yobs).
However, I notice that quite a few of these columnists attracts vitriolic abuse rather than measured debate, so understand if they don't want to do it anymore.
Posted by: Joe James Broughton | December 31, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Well I enjoyed most of them. Most were thought provoking and usually very well written even when I disagreed with them. Could you do better Moral Minority?
Posted by: Malcolm Dunn | December 31, 2007 at 07:18 PM
I could do a lot better, Malcolm
Posted by: Moral minority | January 01, 2008 at 11:02 PM
I think a monkey throwing excrement would be better than a lot of the guff on these "columnists'" pages.
Although there were a couple of interesting articles, Moral Minority is absolutely right - too much ego tripping (and plenty to disagree with!)
Posted by: Tony Hannon | January 02, 2008 at 04:57 PM
Really Tony? I've yet to see a sensible post from you on this or any other subject.
Moral Minority, why don't you try then? Write a piece on the platform section and see how easy it is.
Posted by: Malcolm Dunn | January 02, 2008 at 10:04 PM
It's a matter of opinion Malcolm. I did say there were a few interesting articles (and I'm not even a Conservative) and I don't mean to offend you that enjoyed a few of them.
Different strokes for different folks old chap!
Posted by: Tony Hannon | January 03, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Some mean comments here.
:-(
Posted by: Editor | January 06, 2008 at 10:39 AM
And just when I'd gone to the trouble of giving Stephan Shakespeare his own special link on the blogroll. He was the only one worth reading.
Posted by: UK Daily Pundit | January 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM
I was recently speaking to a respected MP who used to write newspaper editorials. He reckons Graeme should be snapped up by a national paper.
p.s. The section that will replace the columnists goes live on Monday
Posted by: Deputy Editor | January 11, 2008 at 06:01 PM
"I was recently speaking to a respected MP who used to write newspaper editorials."
That would probably be Michael Gove or Paul Goodman, hacks but not original thinkers like Scruton, now in America after escaping politically correct England. That sums up modern Tory politics and journalism perfectly - lightwight liberalism rather than heavyweight conservatism.
Posted by: Moral minority | January 13, 2008 at 08:53 PM